Simon Norfolk
The peripheries of the city of Kabul, especially to the north and east are endless building sites. Since most of the documentation concerning land title was lost during the war, much of this speculative and illegal construction is concerned more with establishing undisputable ‘facts on the ground’. Apartments and shops are, almost exclusively, unoccupied.

The peripheries of the city of Kabul, especially to the north and east are endless building sites. Since most of the documentation concerning land title was lost during the war, much of this speculative and illegal construction is concerned more with establishing undisputable ‘facts on the ground’. Apartments and shops are, almost exclusively, unoccupied.

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Artist Simon Norfolk(British, born Nigeria, 1963)British, born Nigeria, 1963

CultureBritish

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The peripheries of the city of Kabul, especially to the north and east are endless building sites. Since most of the documentation concerning land title was lost during the war, much of this speculative and illegal construction is concerned more with establishing undisputable ‘facts on the ground’. Apartments and shops are, almost exclusively, unoccupied.
from the portfolio Burke + Norfolk: Photographs from the War in Afghanistan

Date2010–2011, printed September 2011

Place depictedKabul, Afghanistan

MediumChromogenic print

DimensionsImage: 14 1/2 × 19 1/4 in. (36.8 × 48.9 cm)
Sheet: 15 × 20 in. (38.1 × 50.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Morris Weiner

Object number2016.224.24

Non exposé

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PHOTOGRAPHS

ProvenanceThe artist; [Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California]; purchased by Morris Weiner, Houston, 2012; given to MFAH, 2016.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk // Photographs from the war in Afghanistan // by John Burke and Simon Norfolk // Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 // An archival, digital, chromogenic print on Fujicolor Crystal Archive // Photograph by Simon Norfolk [signed in pencil over a stamped underline] // One of 104 prints in a Burke + Norfolk portfolio special edition // Edition number 1 of eight [1 is handwritten in pencil over a stamped underline]

Norfolk prints are signed and numbered on verso lower right, within artist's stamp

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